Irradiation device for influencing a biological structure in a subject with electromagnetic radiation

Abstract

An irradiation device for irradiating a living organism with electromagnetic radiation in order to influence biological structures inside the organism has a frequency generator that has a frequency synthesizer for the production of electromagnetic radiation having a defined frequency pattern, and a transmission antenna that is fashioned such that during operation the electromagnetic radiation is emitted essentially into a particular radiation volume. In addition, the irradiation device has an interface for acquiring structure-specific data for identifying a biological target structure that is to be influenced, a frequency pattern storage unit in which defined resonant frequency patterns allocated to various biological structures are stored, a frequency pattern selection unit for selecting a resonant frequency pattern from the frequency pattern storage unit on the basis of the acquired structure-specific data, and a control unit for controlling the RF generator in such a way that a subject to be irradiated, situated in the radiation space, is exposed to electromagnetic radiation having the selected resonant frequency pattern at a particular intensity and for a particular duration of irradiation.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to an irradiation device for irradiating a living organism with electromagnetic radiation in order to influence biological structures inside the organism. In addition, the present invention relates to a control device for such an irradiation device. [0003] 2. Description of the Prior Art [0004] Shortly after the discovery of electromagnetic waves by H. Hertz at the end of the 19th century, attempts began to be made to find therapeutic uses for radio-frequency or high-frequency electromagnetic fields and the heat induction they can produce. A relatively new technology is known as electromagnetic tomography or microwave tomography, which is regarded as having enormous potential in the field of medicine. This technology is explained, for example, in EP 0 928 157 B1. There, a spectroscopic method is described in detail that enables rapid, non-invasive imaging of various physiological tissue...

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Benefits of technology

[0011] An object of the present invention is to provide a universally applicable and easily operated irradiation device of the type described above with which a wide variety of biological structures within a living organism can easily be influenced in a targeted manner, and with which, in particular, viruses, bacteria, fungi, carcinogenic cells, or other pathological sites can be destroyed without significantly damaging other biological structures inside the organism.

[0017] Using the irradiation device according to the present invention, it is easy to influence a wide variety of biological structures inside the organism in a predetermined manner. For this purpose, it is necessary merely to position the radiation subject in the radiation volume, and for the operator of the irradiation device to know the structure-specific data in order to identify the biological target structure that is to be influenced, for example a name or an identifier of a virus or of a bacterium. The operator then need merely input or select the structure-specific data of the biological target structure that is to be influenced. Subsequently, defined resonant frequency patterns associated with the target structure can automatically be selected, and the radiation subject is irradiated in a suitable manner with electromagnetic radiation having the relevant resonant frequency pattern.

[0020] Preferably, the device has a positioning mechanism for positioning the radiation subject inside the radiation volume. This can be a simple platform or can be a platform that can be adjusted, or the like.

[0021] Preferably, the radiation volume is fashioned and dimensioned such that an adult person who is to be irradiated can be contained completely inside the radiation volume. That is, the transmission antenna is fashioned such that the entire body of this person can be irradiated with the desired electromagnetic radiation. In contrast to the method described in WO 00 / 15097, in which the blood of an HIV-infected patient is purposefully conducted through a radiation zone, this has the advantage that the viruses not situated in the blood of the patient can also be destroyed, so that not merely a reduction of the viruses, but an almost complete destruction of all the viruses, is achieved.

[0027] Preferably, the housing is divided by a plane running in a longitudinal direction of the housing, and has a housing base and a housing cover that can be opened and closed. Preferably, this housing is fashioned so as to be able to be folded open and shut around a pivot axis that runs in a longitudinal direction of the housing. This additional construction has the advantage that the person to be irradiated can lie down on a platform inside the housing while the housing is open, as for example in a tanning bed, and can then close the housing by folding it shut, rather than being moved longitudinally into the tube-shaped housing (as is conventional, for example, in magnetic resonance scanners and computed tomography scanners), which is also experienced as unpleasant by the patient.

[0033] Due to the fact that the irradiation device is networked, via the aforementioned interface, with other irradiation devices and / or with a resonant frequency pattern measurement device, the various irradiation devices can consequently be regularly updated, so that a well-directed, large-coverage treatment of infected groups of persons is possible, without great expense, in order to achieve an early containment of epidemics.

Problems solved by technology

Consequently, the system can be excited by small mechanical or acoustic oscillating forces in a very narrow frequency band close to or equal to the resonant frequency, inducing a resonance in the target structure that has a strong influence on the target structure, leading to its destruction.

The energy remaining in the structure can influence the functioning of the structure, and can even result in the destruction of the structure.

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